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From: dorayme on 16 Apr 2010 16:51
Are there any Mac keyboards that are combo wireless/wired. Any
recommendations for wireless (if no combos exist)? To be used for
a Macbook latest when it is not travelling. And is the new Mac
wireless mouse (the $A99 one from Apple online) good to use?

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dorayme
From: TaliesinSoft on 16 Apr 2010 17:01
On 2010-04-16 15:51:00 -0500, dorayme said:

> Are there any Mac keyboards that are combo wireless/wired. Any
> recommendations for wireless (if no combos exist)? To be used for
> a Macbook latest when it is not travelling. And is the new Mac
> wireless mouse (the $A99 one from Apple online) good to use?

I have the Apple wireless (bluetooth) aluminum keyboard which I use in
conjunction with my MacBook Pro. This allows me to have the screen a
bit farther away than if I had to use the built-in keyboard. I can say
that I have been totally satisfied with the keyboard.

As an aside, I also use a wireless mouse with the MacBook Pro, the
mouse being used just to the right of the wireless keyboard.

And as for the Magic Mouse, given that it doesn't have an equivalent to
a scroll wheel that is also a push button, I haven't had any experience
with it.
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James Leo Ryan --- Austin, Texas --- taliesinsoft(a)me.com

From: dorayme on 16 Apr 2010 18:13
In article <82s1hmFp7fU1(a)mid.individual.net>,
TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft(a)me.com> wrote:

> On 2010-04-16 15:51:00 -0500, dorayme said:
>
> > Are there any Mac keyboards that are combo wireless/wired. Any
> > recommendations for wireless (if no combos exist)? To be used for
> > a Macbook latest when it is not travelling. And is the new Mac
> > wireless mouse (the $A99 one from Apple online) good to use?
>
> I have the Apple wireless (bluetooth) aluminum keyboard which I use in
> conjunction with my MacBook Pro. This allows me to have the screen a
> bit farther away than if I had to use the built-in keyboard. I can say
> that I have been totally satisfied with the keyboard.
>

OK, thanks. I was sort of hoping to get a wireless keyboard with
the number keypad but it seems to exist only in a wired version.
My motives are slightly different, not so much to have the
Macbook screen further back but to have the keyboard in front of
a big LCD monitor the MB is attached to when on the desk, the MB
acting as second screen for finder directories and such.

> As an aside, I also use a wireless mouse with the MacBook Pro, the
> mouse being used just to the right of the wireless keyboard.

Which mouse do you use?

>
> And as for the Magic Mouse, given that it doesn't have an equivalent to
> a scroll wheel that is also a push button, I haven't had any experience
> with it.

If this is latest sleek (higher priced) job, it would surely have
some "equivalent"?

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dorayme
From: TaliesinSoft on 16 Apr 2010 18:29
On 2010-04-16 17:13:08 -0500, dorayme said:

> In article <82s1hmFp7fU1(a)mid.individual.net>,
> TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft(a)me.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2010-04-16 15:51:00 -0500, dorayme said:
>>
>>> Are there any Mac keyboards that are combo wireless/wired. Any
>>> recommendations for wireless (if no combos exist)? To be used for
>>> a Macbook latest when it is not travelling. And is the new Mac
>>> wireless mouse (the $A99 one from Apple online) good to use?
>>
>> I have the Apple wireless (bluetooth) aluminum keyboard which I use in
>> conjunction with my MacBook Pro. This allows me to have the screen a
>> bit farther away than if I had to use the built-in keyboard. I can say
>> that I have been totally satisfied with the keyboard.
>>
>
> OK, thanks. I was sort of hoping to get a wireless keyboard with
> the number keypad but it seems to exist only in a wired version.
> My motives are slightly different, not so much to have the
> Macbook screen further back but to have the keyboard in front of
> a big LCD monitor the MB is attached to when on the desk, the MB
> acting as second screen for finder directories and such.
>
>> As an aside, I also use a wireless mouse with the MacBook Pro, the
>> mouse being used just to the right of the wireless keyboard.
>
> Which mouse do you use?

The mouse is a Kensington SlimBlade Bluetooth Presenter mouse. It has a
left and right button and a scroll wheel that also can be pushed to the
left or to the right or clicked.

>> And as for the Magic Mouse, given that it doesn't have an equivalent to
>> a scroll wheel that is also a push button, I haven't had any experience
>> with it.
>
> If this is latest sleek (higher priced) job, it would surely have
> some "equivalent"?

I am one of those that likes Spaces. With my Kensington mouse I can
click the scroll wheel to reveal a snapshot of each of my sixteen
spaces and then pointing to and clicking in a different one of the
snapshots will cause that space to become active.There doesn't appear
(at least to me) to be an equivalent capability with the Magic Mouse.


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James Leo Ryan --- Austin, Texas --- taliesinsoft(a)me.com

From: dorayme on 16 Apr 2010 18:58
In article <82s6mjFmfdU1(a)mid.individual.net>,
TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft(a)me.com> wrote:

> On 2010-04-16 17:13:08 -0500, dorayme said:
>
....
> > Which mouse do you use?
>
> The mouse is a Kensington SlimBlade Bluetooth Presenter mouse. It has a
> left and right button and a scroll wheel that also can be pushed to the
> left or to the right or clicked.
>
> >> And as for the Magic Mouse, given that it doesn't have an equivalent to
> >> a scroll wheel that is also a push button, I haven't had any experience
> >> with it.
> >
> > If this is latest sleek (higher priced) job, it would surely have
> > some "equivalent"?
>
> I am one of those that likes Spaces. With my Kensington mouse I can
> click the scroll wheel to reveal a snapshot of each of my sixteen
> spaces and then pointing to and clicking in a different one of the
> snapshots will cause that space to become active.There doesn't appear
> (at least to me) to be an equivalent capability with the Magic Mouse.

Ah... ok... that sounds pretty fancy. But I might look into this.
Is the mouse you have an ambidextrous design?

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dorayme
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